Hey guys

I've got a half decent rig as i'm an amateur gamer and also a graphic designer, meaning I need a bit of power behind my system to perform upto my requirements. Here's my question, Crysis 2 runs more or less perfectly with an occasional drop in framerate, nothing major at all, but enough to cause me to become OCD about it. As much as i'm only an amateur gamer, I would like butter smooth gameplay.

Here's my rig:

Windows 7 Pro x64
8GB DDR2 Corsair RAM
HD5870 OC'd to 950Mhz & 1300Mhz
Intel Q9650 quad core @ 3Ghz
over 1TB free HDD space
Just spotify running in the bg behind Crysis.

I won't list anymore specs as nothing else would affect gameplay AFAIK. Feel free to contradict that.

Any thoughts?

EDIT: GPU Temp is always at about 65-70c maxed out, so it's not an overheating problem. I've got a good cooling system.

Your overclock'd GPU is most likely unstable in some way. Go back to stock. If that's not it, the next likely thing would be your CPU. You need to get that baby past 3.5GHz.

yea ati seems to have issues quite a bit seems like they just cant get things right over there

As cuad said, check the OC. My hd5870 runs the game perfectly at 1GHz.

Thanks for the replies, although I disagree that it could be due to overclocking. I only recently oc'd the card, and the performance has increased with the oc, however it's not as smooth as i'd like.

Your overclock'd GPU is most likely unstable in some way. Go back to stock. If that's not it, the next likely thing would be your CPU. You need to get that baby past 3.5GHz.

Pretty sure all the tests posted on TechSpot show that upping the cpu beyond 3.0ghz has zero effect on framerate. They did say quad > dual core though.

The game lagged for me more than I expected. Using that user-created graphical settings app I just turned shaders down a notch (just like in the original crysis) and everything ran well.

Also, maybe check your driver settings. I never had ATI but NVIDIA has settings either for global use or app-specific use, and sometimes its wonky.

Thanks warc.

My drivers are all up to date, and in my control panel I have everything set to application specified meaning the drivers don't mess with what the game's telling the card to do.

Anybody think it could be that my RAM is DDR2?